Best of Ourselves

Marcia Hyatt is a leadership and life coach who provides a weekly feature on WTIP's North Shore Weekend titled "The Best of Ourselves," which explores how we can be resilient and creative in these turbulent times. Each week, the feature explores what we can do to be intentional, creative and joyful in our lives.

Some feel kindness is the antidote to hatefulness. It does knit a community together and make us all feel healthier and happier.

In the final episode of the 2017 Bringing out the Best of Ourselves series, we asked for stories of kindness from members of our small North Shore community. Listen to stories of helping in times of need, showing care and random acts of kindness.

This second program in the 2017 series - hosted by Marcia Hyatt - features a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger, co-author of "Simple Habits for Complex Times." She shares simple, fun and rewarding things we can do to be innovative and nimble in times of rapid change. Her practical tips not only provide immediate results, they are contagious!

Learn more about Jennifer on the Cultivating Leadership website, which includes a podcast where she talks about how she has applied these lessons to her journey with cancer.

The 2017 Bringing Out the Best of Ourselves series is funded in part by the Community Opportunity Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation.

This first program in the 2017 series - hosted by Marcia Hyatt - is an exploration into what it means to live deeply; to live a life of authenticity, presence and joy. Marcia interviewed Dr. Roxanne Howe Murphy, the author of the book "Deep Living." She talks about the simple things we can to do be happier and more resilient in our lives.

Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D. is the founder of the Deep Coaching Institute, an internationally accredited, presence–based Enneagram coaching school, and of the Deep Living Institute for spiritual and life practice. The author of "Deep Coaching: Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change" and "Deep Living: Transforming Your Relationship to Everything That Matters through the Enneagram," Roxanne teaches, coaches and leads retreats that support nondualism through the primacy of love, compassion and being surrendered to the Mystery.

The Bringing Out the Best of Ourselves 2017 series is funded in part by the Community Opportunity Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation.

Marcia Hyatt is a leadership and live coach and long time contributor to WTIP. Her weekly series, 'Best of Ourselves', is now available as a podcast and has its own website. North Shore Weekend host CJ Heithoff learns how the series is growing and changing in this interview.

Dr Ron Seigel, a Harvard professor, claims that avoidance is the number one cause of human suffering. Dr Brene Brown says numbing keeps us from feeling the bad stuff, but also keeps us from feeling the good things too. What are you avoiding?